Photo Dispatch: Migrants risking life and limb to cross Alps from Italy to France

So migrants are taking a different tack. The Telegraph witnessed a group of eight dash across ski slopes after nightfall to evade police controls at Montgenèvre, a ski resort straddling the French-Italian border. All have harrowing tales to tell of violence at the hands of Libyan jailors and treacherous sea crossings. To the French state, they are likely to be viewed as economic migrants.